Topic: Legendary Members Spread Completely Fake Information - Merit System Do Not Work (Read 977 times)

that is why I said I am not sure he is simply faking it all to get people to talk back or post back to him.

He is interesting to say the least we can leave it at that.

Not sure it would be fair to call someone crazy because  the stuff they share around here. I do not personally know him, but would rather lean myself on believing he is just into very conspiratorial subjects and also very conspiratorial medicine theories. Regardless of it,  the quantity of merits he has received sounds about right keeping in mind the amount of time he has posted here, if I would even bet most of his earned merits were either gotten during Trump campaigns or when he did not discuss completely about politics and more about conspiracies, from some old participations I have seen in the Politics and society section, it would seem to be that place was more appealed by conspiracies than it is now.

Well BaDdecker is crazy as they come. I am not quite sure if he is real or more like Steve Colbert was on his older show. A left wing playing a right wing.

As you can see, I meant it for the legendaries who did not earn many merits in their forum life. I was giving him an Idea that even though they are Legendary members, it does not mean all of them are knowledgeable enough. I have seen a lot of Legendary accounts that failed to earn 100 merits in the last five years. They have lower credibility than a Full member who earned 100 Merits in the new era.

Now, if you talk about Badecker, he has earned around 355 merits after the air-dropped merits. Now, look at the number of posts he made in this forum. It's almost 40K. Earning 355 merits against nearly 40K posts is not too much. I am going to hit 1600 Posts this week, and I have earned almost 500 merits, and I still think sometimes I write shit.

Why did you raise this up from last month. I thought we pretty much beat this topic to death. I guess somehow you missed reading it.

At learn bitcoin he was dissing badecker. Baddecker has a lot of real merits.

When I saw the title, I thought the merit button did not work for him. Also, he said Legendary Members spread fake information which means many legendaries are involved in spreading fake information. The first thing is, when you see legendary members, their merits are always not earned merits. Some of them got the merits from airdrop and then they were unable to manage earning at least 50 merits in the last couple of years. They are just like another newbie member with thousand activity and zero merits and they writing shit. You can use bpip extension to see if those merits are earned or airdropped.

Incase you don't know the weight in what you've just said here, let me analyze them for you one after the other.

1. You're talking about legendary members spreading fake news, but you're not one yet, should we also assume that when that time comes and you becomes a legendary member, you're also going to feed us with fake news?

2. If your response is no, then know this that you're not expected to treat a single person issue or challenges to affect every other persons.

3. You don't have the enough reason to say that the merit system does not work with here.

Spreading misinformation is not against the forum rules as far as I know. Who is going to decide if the information is legit or not anyway? Fact checkers? Nice joke.

The OP is trying to say something and at the same time he's getting the whole issue mixed up.
I think he's having a bad day with the merit system and at the same time a legendary member with a topic that has fake information (so he said). My question is why didn't the OP just drop his opinion on that or ignore the post relating to the fake cancer information and move on? Or if he's having issues with whatever he's pointing at why not go straight to the main issue that bothering him? And the merit system doesn't work, how?🤔

Hah, I didn't know that this topic is still alive.


While I aggree that he doesn't deserve attention that he is getting, I disagree on ulterior motive part. This topic is reult of OP's ignorance, and its not the only nonse topic that he created in these last few months since he registered here.

I think the OP has ulterior motives for creating this thread therefore I would not bother giving him attention beyond this post. In total he has made 36 posts after he created this thread yet he did not post here again. He seems to be trying to make a name for himself by attention-seeking but his plans have now ended because his last login was on the same day as when he received a negative tag.

I noticed the OP some weeks ago because he was posting in threads and boards that usually do not attract newbies unless they are alt-accounts pretending to be newbies. To me, it was quite clear he was trying to get a higher rank and that was probably to achieve a nefarious end.

The OP has given up on trying build his Joeyp account therefore he will concentrate on his other accounts and this time will probably stay away from the Reputation and Meta boards as well as will avoid using any of his accounts to scam at least until they seem trustworthy.

@Joeyp
Actually, the merit system works really well, and also the overall community response to that thread was positive. He didn't receive a single merit for it, proving that no one thinks it's a quality contribution. And absolutely no one, besides yourself, posted in that thread to either support or show opposition to his claims. Everything is as it should. 

You don't use one mistake or false information he/she shared about cancer and question the merit system that has been established and adopted by a reputable forum like bitcointalk.org. You don't make an unverified accusation. You don't generalize things, learn to be specific on a particular person you are dealing with. So how do you balance your claim with those that has thousands of merits that has been sharing helpful and credible information here in the forum, since you are saying the merit system doesn't work?

He also has a neutral trust from Icopress for spreading false statements/misinformation. Thanks for letting me know there are crazy people out there on the forum.
One more thing about shitposters is that there is a stake campaign running that only allows shitposters to post high number of posts per week. Most of these shitposters spread spam without much research to complete their post count.

I truly appreciate and commend your commitment to combatting misinformation, especially in health-related topics. However, as some other members have already pointed out, the merit system was not designed for these matters and is, therefore, irrelevant. Have you considered the possibility of applying demerits in such cases? If not, it means that, for now, no users can receive demerits. We should also be mindful not to believe everything we read; it is everyone's responsibility.
So to conclude, your claim that the forum's merit system is useless, is not valid. I hope you understand that. Once again, kudos for your concern; I have great respect for people like you.

If you ever come across misinformation, please don't hesitate to report the post. Moderators will review it on your behalf.

OP, where are you driving at?
Because from what you're saying, you're complaining about the information that was given wasn't solid or true about cancer, that's ok. Why not stick to that and concentrate on that issue, I don't know what the merit system has to do with this FAKE INFORMATION.
If you feel the merit system isn't working or whatever you feel about it, just open a new thread and give us what you have observed about it, because to me this isn't getting anywhere. First you said a legendary member gave a fake information and  merit system doesn't work, I still can't get how they both connect OP.

Did you say its useless? Or you saying those who implemented the merit system do not know what they are doing?. Please do not say that unless you have quality proof to back up what you are saying. Previously it was so easy to rank up, all you need was some good number of activities ad boom your moving to the next rank. That means if you have about 1k to 2k activities in a week you probably could be a legendary member in a week.

The main reason for the merit system is unique and its proven to be functionable. It has helped reduce the high number of shit posting, regulate the merit ranking to system to the individual local boards and so many other good benefits. I think you should read a little history of the merit system of the forum, ill share the link and I hope you find it helpful to convince you that the merit system still works.

History of bitcointalk's ranking system

In retail pharmacy you're free and you provide guidance to many people about drugs but in that field most of the pharmacists are for revenue purpose I guess, but as a hospital pharmacist we basically help people with our education and support them with drugs for free as the drugs are funded by government. I'm quite sure the hospital pharmacists are doing the same thing all over the world.

Man, retail pharmacy is also a good job I guess because there are less restrictions in that area and we can have some rest every once in a while but as hospital pharmacists we'll have to serve patients at hospital. Sometimes a hospital pharmacist has to serve patients on festival days when the hospitals are officially off, but the emergency work is always there for hospital pharmacists. Let's discuss further about it in PM as it's going somewhat off-topic here!



Well, that's true and basically the merit system was implemented to ward-off the account farmers and spammers and it has nothing to do with a member's rank. The ones who receive air-dropped merits were basically active members of the forum before the merit system was implemented and the received those air-dropped merits as reward for their presence and activity on the forum.

The OP seems to be highly against the merit system but he/she doesn't know that how good the merit system is and how much it improved the forum. It's because of the merit system the account farming stopped otherwise we might still had so many account farmers who would be posting useless spam or 1 liner posts in order to rank their accounts up. Ah, actually in present days they wouldn't be doing that spamming themselves but set a number of bots that might be doing that shit for them.

As much as the merit system has been brought in the spotlight, this thread did not get any merits for it .
And the fact that the OP isn't a medical doctor either (by assumption) this should mean the OP was simply expressing their opinion and not giving expert advice , hence DYOR to get facts or seek medical advice in relation to the topic. Btw, that's why medical doctors actually discourage self prescription because there is so much information out there which is good & bad and an ordinary person won't sieve out the bad information and we are advised to see a doc.

And with this, we have to appreciate how the forum is structured to allow users to express their opinions freely , BCT is the place to be #true_freedom

Probably that's the board he finds his strength and joy, like some users only post in mining or Bitcoin technical support or  gambling for instance etcetera

Hell yeah!!  I could never stand retail pharmacy, and my best years were as a hospital pharmacist.  Now this is a rare situation, because I've only met one other person in the profession and he did or still does work for a chain pharmacy.  Most do, I suspect--but I also suspect 90% of them are miserable.  In the hospital setting you actually put your brain and education to use.  Way off topic but I'm gonna hop back on right now:

But it was the case, and the point is that BADecker didn't earn 1000 of the merits that he has, nor did I.  I was just illustrating the fact that it would appear to newcomers or those who don't know about how the merit system started that he earned far more merits for his posts than he actually did, and that would lead some to assume that more people agree with his ramblings than is actually the case.

Yes, professionals make mistakes all the time.  That goes along with being human, and except for the AI-posting lunatics we've got polluting the forum we're all in that same boat.

Hear, hear.